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Northwood · 1 week ago

RF Hardware Engineer

Torrance, CA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry, Mid Level

0+ years exp

Northwood is on a mission to build a data highway between earth and space through innovations in space communications technologies. As an RF Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for RF electronics design and performance, collaborating with various engineering disciplines to create optimal products from concept to production.

AerospaceHardwareSatellite Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability

Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance

Build RF circuits (LNA’s, filters, power amplifiers) as well as support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance

Collaboration with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance

Qualification

RF design experiencePower amplifier designLNA designElectromagnetic simulationPython for data analysisCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline

0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas

Preferred

RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance

Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design

Experience with design and bring-up of point of load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI

Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis

Use of Python (or other language) for data analysis and test automation

Company

Northwood

Northwood was founded by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra with the mission to expand access to space by transforming satellite backhaul infrastructure.

Founded in 2023

Torrance, California, USA

11-50 employees